Over the past couple of weeks we have been learning about music. The main focus is thinking about how music makes us feel. Last week we listened to a piece of music. We didn’t know  anything about the music but had to listen carefully and imagine what we thought the music was about. We then had to draw our idea! We were very excited to find that the song was about a firebird who had been captured and was then freed!

We all really enjoyed the piece of music and some of us created our own dance which we then performed to others in the class.

This week we focused on our emotions and how different music can make you feel a certain way. We discussed the different tempo in music, the instruments we could hear and also the lyrics. All of these things can make us feel a certain emotion. Some music makes us feel happy and excited whilst other songs can make us feel scared or sad! One piece of music made us feel calm and it was even described as feeling like a big hug!

This week we started learning about Space. One thing we wanted to find out about was what makes it become day and night. We watched a short video which explained how the earth moves and when certain parts face the sun it is day time. We then created our own diagram of this and labelled it to show our understanding. Some of us have travelled as far as Australia before and enjoyed sharing their experience of it being day time there when it is night time here! We were able to see this on this on the globe!

Last week we created our own bar charts to display some data we collected about the class. We were all asked our favourite animals and then used tally marks to record this. We then used this information to build a bar chart with cubes. We had to think about the data and the numbers on the bar chart.

In PE this term we have been focusing on Athletics and Gymnastics.

In Gymnastics we have been learning  a different skill each week. We have practised balancing, jumping and rolling and this week put all of these skills together.

We have learned that there are lots of different ways we can balance with our body and also different ways we can jump. It is also important to land safely when we jump!

As part of our learning about the community, we have been discussing all of the different people who help us in our community. This includes librarians, refuse collectors, shopkeepers and the lollipop lady who helps us cross the road before and after school. As a class, we have selected six roles in our community who we would like to say thank you to.

This week, we split into small groups and each looked at one of the roles. We discussed how this person helps us and what could happen to our community if we didn’t have them.

We would like to write thank you letters to each of these roles within our community and started by drawing a picture to go with the letter. Next week, we will have a go at writing the letter and we hope to deliver these to most of the people the following week.

Over the past couple of weeks we have been learning about 3D objects. We have been discussing how they are different to 2D shapes and learning about the different features of each 3D object.

We explored if each of the 3D objects could stack, slide or roll!

We were challenged to solve some problems involving horizontal and vertical numbers lines. We had to work out how many jumps somebody had made on the number line but we were only given some clues to help us solve it. We worked in small groups and also had to think about communicating with each other.

We have also been practising our number bonds to help build our knowledge of numbers. We had to find as many different ways as we could to make a certain number.

Last week, we were learning about Earth Day with Mrs Dickie. We created our own planet earth from salt dough and this week we painted them blue and green. They still aren’t quite dry but we are looking forward to bringing them home next week.

We are becoming more and more creative with our buildings in Primary 1 and challenging ourselves with very impressive structures and unique designs. We love to use the loose parts to add detail to our buildings.